Pi Day: fun with numbers: 'fixing' pi (π)

Quest for Pi solved with polygons 🥧 - 22/7=pi (3.14...) since ancient architects calculated it.

Understanding irrational numbers: pi vs. rational numbers - 

Pi as a fraction? It's possible #shorts #math - Visualization of pi being irrational

Worship the number, Kids, like in dumb religion

At UC Berkeley, my roommate Nathaniel and I used to mull over the Big Questions -- rebirth, telepathy, PSI, ultimate reality, physics, infinity, the nature of space, psychic powers, black holes, UFOs, the meaning of life, the futility of death, and the importance of birth control, in addition to debating whether reading fiction (like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) could serve any practical function. Those were the salad days, under a powerful red light in a half-mannequin lamp in otherwise very hippie digs, there was no question we would not tackle. I came at things from mysticism, literature and psychology, whereas he was the numbers man, practical engineer, and theoretical physicist.

Douglas Adams' fictional book about a Guide

He loved sports, I loved music. He did homework (problem sets) with all his free time, and I meditated at the Berkeley Zen Center and more or less gazed at my navel the rest of the time. He was much smarter, but I got better grades. We were in school to be schooled and went on to grad school to continue the cat and mouse, chasing GPAs and glory of a most trivial and nerdy sort. Because what college really gives a person of privilege is the leisure to think, philosophize, question, debate, foster intellectual creativity, and expand. How sad that so many people spend it drinking or doing all the things they missed out in high school from having to study so much to get into a place like Cal, Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, or Yale in the first place. We were sober for our discussions.

If only I had done more math, if only he had taken a real philosophy class (instead of accidentally landing himself in a course on logic), what might have been? We'd be two doctors having this debate:

• Natty, my good man, let me propose a problem for analysis.
• Yeah-yeah, Dawg, wassup?
• As you are a privileged white male in our society, having undertaken a full and rigorous course of mathematics up to and including calculus, I have a thought experiment for you.
• Aw, Man, drop that b*tch, and let's hear it.
• Would you mind, Friend, dispensing with the urban diction?
  
• The whuh?
• The Ebonics or whatever manner of slang you're currently employing.
• Say whut, Nugs? I be talkin' like I always be talkin! Word!
• You never talk like this! Anyway, if it's what you prefer, it's just that you're making a mockery of these proceedings.
• Ahh, yeah, lemme git da redlight! Sounds like an all nighter to wax on 'bout.
• Here it is. I say pi (π, 3.14159...) is stupid because it is, as you say, "irrational." I want it to be rational rather than go on forever. And I think I thought up a way to do it.
• Do whut, Dawg?
• Get it to end, get it to be rational, get it to divide cleanly (without remainder), get all the measurements in order, from say a perspicacious, anal, or OCD drive in me to make better pyramids, architecture, and other low-to-no margin of error constructions by making the calculations in the blueprints better.
• "Better"?
• They'll be better in that they come out without infinite remainders of trailing digits beyond the decimal point.
• No need, my Brutha.
• This has never been about a need. This is pure science with no (apparent) application, research for its own sake, and you're just the man to do. Take this back to your professors and put it to them. They may see the wisdom of such a pursuit in building, calculating, and approaching the verities of life in a perfect simulation/world.
• Pi can'ts bee evenly divided; it stays irrational.
• I know. But I have a way to evenly divide it and make it rational, that is, to turn it from an odd number to an even number.
• Ain't gonna happen, Bruh.
• That's what the purpose of this thought experiment is! I'm going to make it happen. See if you don't agree, as my mind is not bogged down with all the math knowledge, rules acceptance, and numerical assumptions you labor under, I think I'm onto something. It's very easy in theory. How it would be proven, that I leave up to you. I'm the visionary madman making a creature. You are a white lab coat wearing functionary in this thought lab.
• STEP 1: Switch from Base 10 to another base, such as Base 11 (or 13, 22, 7, 28, 60, 364, or 365). We'll start with those first.
• STEP 2: Calculate pi. I bet it will break even without all those digits after the decimal.
• Aww, ai don't think it'll work, Dawg, ai'ight?
• STEP 3: Keep plugging in different bases until it does work.
• Whut's da use? If it ain't workin, how's swtichin gonna work it?
• I suggest we try Base 11.5 or Base 5. Then Base 10.66 or 10.67. See Base 10 is even, and I think that's the fundamental problem, so let's switch to an odd base.
• "Odd base"?
• Yes, something that is not even like 10.
• Ya may be onto sumthin.
• I know. And I need you to prove it. Otherwise, I'm going to have to resort to Mathletics, AI, Chat GPT, Grok, and other demonic entities to work it out. And you know they can't, for all they can do is tell me what a genius I am and how I just invented a new math system, and all that other back patting and feelgood replying they do to sincere saps who resort to such compliments when, in fact, they need pushback.
• I ain't sure Texas Instruments calculators can handle this job cuz, internally, they might be juzz as jacked as math books in publik schoolz, ya hear?
• Yeah, I hear. We may have to use a computer or supercomputer for this one. Doesn't your physics class have a lab with just such a program or IBM, Apple, or Hewlett Packard device?  

Supporting mixed-level math learning: Mathletics success story from elementary

(Kristina Gobetti, Feb. 19th, 2026) Categories: Educators

Int'l Day of Women and Girls in Science

In classrooms where students read at different levels, teaching math becomes a double challenge: helping students understand both the mathematics and the questions [word problems] themselves.

Teaching a split class in rural Alberta, Canada, Jennifer Doherty at Alder Flats Elementary School needed a program flexible enough to support all her students.

She found that solution in Mathletics, an online math program for schools that has become an essential tool for building numeracy [the number version of literacy] skills and confidence. Watch Doherty explain how Mathletics works in her classroom every day, from audio support to clear progress reporting. More

Is Pi rational? Not by this definition

Tartaria and 13 were purposely erased

(Tartaria Vault) Why the Powers That Be made "13" (thirteen) a forbidden number

Why they made '13' a forbidden number

Thirteen is good, special, and banned

(Tartaria Vault) Feb. 26, 2026: What explains how a number once treated as sacred across dozens of unconnected ancient civilizations — a number embedded in natural lunar cycles, temple architecture, cosmological frameworks, and the very structure of natural time — was systematically removed from calendars, hospitals, airports, hotels, and cultural consciousness, without a single serious public reckoning about what that erasure actually cost us?

The standard explanation — that 13 became unlucky through accumulated folklore and religious association — collapses when we examine what the evidence actually shows: not a gradual cultural drift, but a coordinated, institutionally enforced disappearance.

Everyone used to know about Tartaria.

No law required it. No international standard mandated it. Yet airlines, architects, racing circuits, and hospitals across different countries and languages all arrived at the same conclusion simultaneously, consistently as if following (implicit) instructions they didn't fully understand.

As I investigated the ancient record — from the Mayan Tzolk'in to the Druidic tree calendar to the Osirian mysteries of Egypt to the turtle-shell lunar counts of indigenous North America — a disturbing pattern materialized.

Of course, we had to cover it up. That goes...

These weren't parallel coincidences across unconnected cultures. They were the same underlying logic: 13 lunar cycles per year, 13 as a cosmic threshold, 13 as the number that resists clean division and refuses to be controlled, all embedded in stone and ceremony across continents and millennia. Then, quietly, it was gone because here's what the replacement also did.

The 12-month calendar didn't just reorganize administrative time, it may have severed something older: the synchronization between human beings and natural cycles — body, moon, season, sky — that had structured life across every pre-modern culture was superseded.

It was not banned, not destroyed outright, just reframed allegedly as "superstition," pathologized, given a clinical name. And the generations that remembered another way of counting time died without passing that memory forward.

This investigation asks whether the disappearance of 13 was accidental — or whether it was the point, whether the most effective erasure isn't the one that destroys knowledge entirely, but the one that makes the question itself seem ridiculous. Once one sees the pattern, one can't unsee it.

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#tartaria #oldworld #forbiddennumber #thirteenmonthcalendar #erasedhistory #hiddenhistory #lostknowledge #ancientcivilizations #forbiddenknowledge #calendarconspiracy

The Dark Side of JewBu Albert Einstein

Did scientist and mathematician Einstein really praise Buddhism as the way of the future?

Einstein's surprising connection to Buddhism - Three things Einstein said about Buddhism?

What did Einstein say about Buddhism? - Einstein's answer to "Do you believe in God?"

The dark side of Albert Einstein

If incest is good enough for the Rothschilds

Jewish (possible JewBu) Albert Einstein is regarded as one of the greatest physicists of all time, but he has also become a pop culture icon.

 

Alby's groundbreaking theory of special relativity turned him into one of the most important figures in history.

Icon like Mary, Marilyn, Elvis, Dolly, Martin, Gidget, Bruce?

You and Freud both like the Buddha.

Though, just like with other famous and eccentric personalities, there are real facts mixed with myths that survive to this day. Is he another Ashkenazi Jew guilty of incest? Or was he a crossdresser who married himself?

Having married his manly looking cousin, who grew to look more and more exactly like him, does not bolster his case for good judgment. But she may have been instrumental in his fame and his math.

I should be the icon! It's sexism and bias!

Suburban Lawns' sexy Einstein A-bomb song

Has the next Einstein already been born? - Yes

In this gallery let's debunk some of the myths and bring a number of surprising facts about Al that most have probably never heard. Browse through and learn more about the supposed genius that was Dr. Einstein (who had no doctoral degree of any kind). More: msn.com

There are two Einsteins, aren't there? Not Mr. and Mrs., but rather like Jesus (Yeshua) the real person and the pop icon (Christ). Reza Aslan was emphatic about this distinction. Everyone knows about the popular fantasy, and very few bother to learn about a possible historical figure in the context of his cultural milieu.

Old Einstein loved a good joke: my driver

Einstein and the Chauffeur story - The story of Albert Einstein and his driver

How smart was Einstein? 🧠 Neil deGrasse Tyson - Einstein’s driver outsmarted everyone 🤯

Einstein vs. Tesla: Secret meeting - Nice to everyone, except one Jew by Avshalom Elitzur

Einstein refers to Nikola Tesla - Einstein's praise for Nikola Tesla's superior intelligence

Jew in the Lotus: Rediscovery of Identity

American JewBu (Emily Sigalow)

The Suburban Lawns "Gidget Goes to Hell" and "Janitor"

Seeing Into the Life of Things

During the historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama, as told in his international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus, Rodger Kamenetz heard a penetrating question to the rabbis: "How does your spiritual practice purify afflictive emotions?"

To Kamenetz, this seemed the most fundamental question to ask of any religion or philosophy of life. How do your practices help you with negative emotions like anxiety, envy, resentment, and shame?

You support our cause, right Mr. Lama?

Taking the listener with him on an exhilarating intellectual and emotional journey, he finds a natural spiritual path in the imagination. Kamenetz connects daily life to spiritual longing, from the musical rhythms of his beloved New Orleans to his tender bond with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, visionary founder of Jewish Renewal and a central figure in the Dharamsala, India (where the Dalai Lama lives in exile), dialogue.

China says I'm [a] Devil. Wrathful spirit?

Embedded in a rich poetic narrative, Seeing Into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter offers down to earth practices from "count your blessings," to savoring perception, from dwelling on powerful memories, to the sacred encounters in dreams.

Kamenetz shows how giving birth to our images restores us to an imagination of the sacred.

• #AlbertEinstein #Buddha #Zen #shorts #Buddhism
• Shauna Schwartz, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Int'l Day of Women and Girls in Science

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Beauty-and-brains combine: Latina genius

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is an annual observance adopted by the United Nations General Assembly to promote equal participation of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields [1].

• Did the world forget all the female greats in herstory (his-story)? There was Kwan Yin (Buddhist Goddess of Compassion); Scheherazade; Asherah (the Jews' God's wife); Ven. Khema and Ven. Uppalavanna (the Buddha's chief female disciples); the world's first Buddhist nun (the Buddha's mother Maha Pajapati); Prince Siddhartha's wife -- who became an enlightened Buddhist nun and the top debater in the land -- found hidden all over ancient Buddhist texts by many and varied names: Rahulamata (Rāhula's mother), Bhaddakaccā (Lucky One), Yasodharā (Graceful), Bimbā Devī (Princess Bimba), Bimbā-sundarī (Bimba the Beautiful), Bhadda-kaccānā (Lucky Kaccana), Subhaddakā; though Mahayana Buddhist texts favor the epithet "Yasodharā" the daughter of Dandapānī, she was born Bimbā, and names like Yosadhāri were descriptive epithets applied to her, which later became regarded as names. It is also possible that in Gautama's court there was a Yasodharā, daughter of Dandapānī, and that there later came to be a confusion of names (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names).

Al-Lat in Islam, the pre-Muslim Goddess the Patriarchy buried and nearly forgot.

What did we lose by losing our Goddess?

The U.N. General Assembly passed the resolution in 2015 [2], which proclaimed February 11th as the commemoration of the observance [3].

A theme is selected annually as a focus point for gender equality [or parity] in science [4].

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is implemented annually at the U.N. Headquarters by the Royal Academy of Science International Trust in partnership with UNESCO and UN Women to promote the role of women and girls in scientific fields and celebrate those who have been successful in the field [5]. More

The smartest woman in (literary) history?

Sultan and Scheherazade (1001 Nights)

Sheherazade (mnemonic "She Her a Sadie," Scheherazade, Shahrazad, Šahrzād) is the legendary narrator and central character framing One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic ألف وواحد ليلة, Romanized Alf wa waħid layla).

This collection of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African folktales compiled in Arabic between the 8th-14th centuries is a powerhouse in the West, where its origins are deemphasized.

• Buddhism came out of the Middle East, not today's geopolitical morass dubbed the "Middle" East but rather Gandhara [ancient Afghani-stan, Saka-stan, Paki-stan, ir "Kapilavatthu-stan," the mahajanapada of Gandhara at the foothills of the Hindu Kush, which are part of the greater Himalayan range, in Central Asia, northwestern frontier of what later became the Empire of "India" united by Buddhist King Ashoka, but was not yet India or Hindu-stan and no longer Maha Bharata), and the Buddha was a Saka (Indo-Scythian, Shakya, Sakya] in the ancient Kingdom of Magadha now the modern Indian state of Bihar. Note that nowhere is Nepal mentioned because, according to Dr. Ranajit Pal, author of Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander, that seems to be where the Buddha's hometown/homeland was RELOCATED for religio-historical, cultural, and geopolitical purposes after Islamic invasions overrunning the Near East and "Middle" East, and the rich Empire of India, all make-believe designations resulting from imperial British colonialism in a region of the world the ancient Greeks called Scythia and beyond].

Princess Yasodhara, Prince Siddhartha's wife

Sheherazade is the super smart wife of King Shahryar who saves herself, and ultimately all the women in the kingdom, from execution by recounting a continuous sequence of interlinked stories over the course of 1,001 nights.

Sheherazade is not the protagonist in the individual tales she narrates. Rather, she functions as the unifying narrative consciousness of the entire work of brilliance. She's the storyteller.

Through [the use of cliffhangers or] deliberate pacing, narrative suspense, and thematic selection, she gradually transforms King Shahryar from a ruler driven by misogyny and vengeance into a just and stable king. More

• International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Bing)
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Hollywood made a movie: Black female human calculators

• Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Scientists just made TIME run backward

Social psychologists know time is mutable.

(Julia McCoy) Jan. 19, 2026: Scientists (physicists) just made time run BACKWARD (and this changes everything about reality). Their experiments are presumably objective because they are repeatable and scalable, as published in Nature Physics.

• Time (yugas in kalpas) is cyclical
• Only real time is the aionic NOW
• Aionic vs. eternal life (Dr. Ammon Hillman)
• Aionios cannot mean ‘eternal’ (Medium)
• Eonion life, not eternal life (NOW is aionic)

COMMENTARY

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Big deal! - What do you mean? This is the most tremendous scientific advancement of our lives! - I could do the same thing. - You're crazy! You couldn't even get your hands on the meta materials to try! - Sure I could, just borrow them from my brother. - You're brother's a scientist? - No, just a music fan with lots of vinyl. Is that meta enough for ya? - How's that going to help you? - Pink Floyd just hit a world record with more than like 1,000 nonconsecutive weeks on the Billboard charts for Dark Side of the Moon. - So what?

Does it play Pink Floyd? - No, Gilligan, why?

D'uh, that album has "Time" on it. I could make it run backward; in fact, I have made it run backward lots of times, looking for backward masking to explain its enduring popularity. - That's not the same thing! - It may not be, but I did it, and it was no big deal. - Well this is a BIG deal because it goes to prove, time is not real. At least, it's not what we think it is. All time is NOW. We can play it front or back or revisit it or change it through retrocausation, but it is definitely NOT what it seems to be. - Oh, that is a big deal. - D'uh, I told you!

• Physics versus Metaphysics
• VIDEO: Power plug found in 100,000-year-old cave

Was this article written by The Professor?

"Temporal anti-parity–time symmetry in diffusive transport"

OK, now just as an experiment, everyone pedal backwards to before we were shipwrecked.

ABSTRACT

Nature Physics

: Parity–time symmetry has revolutionized wave and energy transport control in non-Hermitian systems, yet has so far been mostly explored in static phases, where a system’s behaviour is locked into a fixed-symmetric or broken-symmetry phase. The vast potential of time-domain dynamics has remained largely untapped. Here we introduce the concept of temporal anti-parity–time symmetry, a principle that allows the transport dynamics of a system to be actively shaped in real time. Rather than designing static phases, we influence the timing of non-Hermitian phase transitions, making the system’s temporal evolution itself a programmable degree of freedom. Through the dynamic control of material properties and convective flow, we dictate the exact moments these transitions occur, thereby controlling the entire transport history of the system. This temporal control achieves highly tunable field localization and realizes counterintuitive thermal transport, enabling temperature profiles to move forwards with convection, backwards against it or remain trapped at arbitrary locations. Our findings extend non-Hermitian physics into the time domain and establish a framework for on-demand wave and energy transport. Source

• Nature Physics, published Dec. 10, 2025, by Peng Jin, Chengmeng Wang, Yuhong Zhou, Shuihua Yang, Fubao Yang, Jinrong Liu, Ya Sun, Pengfei Zhuang, Yiyang Zhang, Liujun Xu, Yi Zhou, Ghim Wei Ho, Cheng-Wei Qiu & Jiping Huang.
• This happened in Looper! List of films featuring time loops (Wikipedia)
• Scientists found the great lost labyrinth of Egypt hidden in the sand (MSN) - Were they more technologically advanced than we are?
• Hidden alabaster boxes beneath Egypt: forbidden knowledge
• VIDEO: 31,000-year-old amputation rewrites medical history
• Fossils found in cave shed light on where our species emerged
• The original Semites: Where did the Sumerians come from?
• How old is time that it did this to Fish River Canyon, Namibia?
• Julia McCoy; Pink Floyd; Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Sheldon S., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

DMT laser experiment: Life's a simulation!

(Erik K Swanson | Documentaries) Inside the DMT laser experiment: A search for the Simulation's source code.

If a laser let's us see the source code of the simulation on DMT, can it make me beautiful?